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A review by kehwa
Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir by Farah Bashir
3.0
The memoir revolves around the funeral of the writer's grandmother, Bobeh and weaves a picture of life in Kashmir in 1990s. It is a painful account that oscillates between the present and how an action, a person or a habit is tied to harrowing memories in the past. It is a retelling of the painful changes in Kashmir and the lives of Kashmiris through the curious eyes of an innocent and observant narrator. The memoir charts the course of the narrator's own anxiety and depression and how it is tied with her gruesome surroundings.
The anxiety and the pain suffered by the writer was palpable through her writing. Once started with it, it was difficult for me to put down this terrifying account of life in Kashmir.
The anxiety and the pain suffered by the writer was palpable through her writing. Once started with it, it was difficult for me to put down this terrifying account of life in Kashmir.